[…], this is an interview with Mr John Hogarth by Rodney Giesler on the 8th June 1994. Can you tell me when you were born and how you came into the industry - give me a sort of chronology?John Hogarth : Yes. I was born in February 1931 and entered the industry in September of 1946. It's a point of quie[…]
[…]ng school, so I went away at the age of 8 to a boarding school at Warwick—quite a distinguished school in its way. I think it's the oldest in the country. It was founded I think in 946, by Edward the Confessor. But it's not an expensive or distinguished school, but very old. Warwick School. INT[…]
[…]d polished and the masters of the ships would come and report in. And, but there was, there was a list like that that said name of ship, port of registry, gross tonnage, net tonnage, you know, all that and I still know that. And that was quite interesting but after four years I began to think, you k[…]
[…]ft Holland?MD: We got out. This is not really relevant. That’s a story in itself.NS: You came home?MD: Well then the War. Touring up and down the country. Seasons in London Headquarters of the company were moved to Burnley in Lancashire.DISC 1 Side 2 Track 2NS: You were in BurnleyMD: Yes well […]
[…]re or something, do some job and I was just doing the alternates. And eventually, they put me on to decorating Gaumont Dance halls all around the country. And I was raising experiences. It literally was a producible Mason, Herbert Mason, yes, famous name me Well, when the films he gave him to became[…]
[…]e ago, but I do remember wanting to play the piano. We had an old piano down in the basement which was in an old house, and I remember watching them, trying to see them down in the basement. I recovered from that, and at the age of 10 I was getting on very nicely, and I wanted to play the pian[…]
[…]nd you were obviously very happy to get into the business to break in?Norman Fisher: Indeed. Kay Laboratories at that time were setting up a sensitometry department and sensitometry was rather a new thing then. I was in that most of the time, in Kays in fact all of the time. And I did about a year i[…]
[…] my education, this was it, Jimmy Verity, bought a sound van for £ 100 and he wanted my father to pay for this van, we were going to go round the countryside making films and he turned that down as well . I'm sure he was quite right because I'm sure Jimmy Verity, may god bless him was a queer as a c[…]
[…] Yes, quite true. In those days, of course, the camera used to run out before the sound. Later on it was always a fight trying to keep the synchronised on that, but never mind! Yes, the sound truck was a real thing. Now, the man behind things at British Colo[…]
